Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-20
THE COUNTY,S OUTLINES.

The Area and Some Leading Topo-
graphical Features.
1t is in the heart of the Sacramento
valley, and extends from the Coast
Range east across the Sacramento river, a
distance of sixty miles, and from north to
south fifty miles. This gives an area of
5000 square miles, or about 100000
acres an area nearly three times greater
than the State of Rhode Island, which has
population of nearly 10000 people
one-third greater than the State of Della
ware, which has population of 10000.
VARIED TOPOGRAPHY.
This county has a varied topography.
On the east is the Sacramento river, which,
with its swift current of clear, crystal
water, runs the whole length of the county
from north to south Extending from this
stream west for twenty miles are the rich
alluvial plains, covered here and there
with oak trees, producing great oak parks.
These plains gradually rise to and merge
into the swelling and rolling foothills,
which in turn, rising higher and higher,
assume the shape and size of hills. All
through these hills are deep, winding val
leNS, NdiN luS iioih a iV" ioNt7 ~ '"0 Aiiita
in width.
THE HILLS SURROUNDING THESE VALLEYS
Present every variety of surface, in a few
places rising high and abrupt, in others
presenting rich, warm slopes that termi-
nate in rounded sugarloaves adapted to all
kinds of cultivation. On these hiil-sides
there are tree growths of all kinds, includ-
ing several varieties of oaks, and pines,
fir, cedar, spruce, manzanita and madrona.
West of these foothills and their interior
valleys there is high line of timber
covered hills, running parallel with the
Sacramento valley and the Coast Range.
This line of hills rises to the hight of
thousand feet or more. Between these
hills and the Coast Range proper is
SYSTEM OF DEEP VALLEYS,
Running parallel to the Sacramento
These valleys are deep and rich, and are
divided by streams that drain the eastern
slopes of the main Coast Range and the
western sides of these lines of hills. The
county is divided into the Sacramento val
ley portion, containing 100000 acres; the
foothill portion, containing 100000 acres
of valleys and sloping foothills; the high
range valleys and their bordering foothills,
comprising 100000 acres, and the Coast
Range portion, of 100000 acres The
western mountain portion rises to an ele-
walton of 5000 feet, and is covered with
heavy forest growths of pine, spruce, fir
and cedar.
SCENERY OF THE COUNTY.
The scenery of Colusa county is of the
most varied character, and presents every
phase of the beautiful, the wild, and the
grand From thousand valleys, canyons
and gorges the Sacramento gathers the
waters of vast drainage basin, and pours
them through these rich plains in deep,
swift currents, or in great silent eddies,
whirling under high banks. Bordering
this mighty stream are
GIANT LIVE AND WHITE OAKS,
That rival in size the largest growths of
these trees in any part of the world. These
tree groszths, curtained with ivy and wild
grapevines, extend back from this stream
in places for miles. On the vide plain in
winter and spring there are great fields of
green grass aad grain, and every hue and
tint Of flower and Towering shrub. In sum-
mer there are continuous views, As far as
the eye can reacn, of harvest aveas ever all
these plains and far up on 10 the foothills |
In the hills and mountains these slSping
uplands, deep valleys, deep gorees aad |
canyons oyerhanging cliffs, ,pinnacled pcaks.
rounded domes and great forests. Every !.
taste and fancy can be pleased here. For
those who have lived Oh the prairies. there {
is their counterpart in the plains; for the
dweller among bills, there are deep valleys !